/bin/sh => STDIN & functions, var scope messing

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Tue May 28 12:00:57 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Václav Zeman <vhaisman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Curious. Which of the two behaviours is POSIXly correct?
>

I believe that /bin/sh's behaviour is correct.  I don't know what shell the
manpage is referring to, but it's not bash (bash does the same thing in a
pipeline).  Perhaps it's referring to csh?  If that is the case that line
is probably causing more confusion rather than alleviating it.


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